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Yea it does but there'll probably be other reasons if you're looking at the entire system avionics, targeting, personnel, tactics etc. and want to field it quickly and cost effectively. AC-130 spectre gunship platform is one obvious jump off point. I just hope it can do something one of those platforms can't. I remember seeing footage of a star-wars era version of this trying to shoot down a sidewinder. When the early tests were done they inspected the plane and found tiny scorch marks all over the inside of the aircraft. It turned out the laser was superheating the dust particles in the air inside the aircraft and they'd fly around & scorch anything they touched. So they learned to filter & seal the air in the laser housing. Stuff you don't think about when building your flying laser superweapon.

Link with 2 photos: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1296576.php

You've got me in the wrong pidgeon-hole.

You have to look at the claims and some individual claims may be invalid while others are enforcable. IANAL but i'd suggest if they claimed magnets + parachutes I expect that would be too broad. Equally if they claimed magnets securing toggles to risers there would be some prior art (details could be important though) , but that's not the what's going on here. Patents often try to 'cover the bases' to avoid trivial changes from circumventing the patent. IANAL.

Well I looked at the critique of the French Lab's analysis of the Landis doping samples and it is absolutely damning. If this is accurate it is absolutely unjustifiable to even suggest he failed a test never mind take his title away. There are several really troubling things, most obviously the huge difference between sample 1 & 2, but also the general lack of an actual positive test (multiple 3% issue).

And what exactly is your argument against legalisation? Haven't you seen the commercials. If you smoke mar-ju-wana you end up killing your baby sister. Do we need any more baby killers in this society? I think not. And so that why pot should stay illegal. I thought your brain got smacked with a frying pan.

Unfortunately, it costs money to challenge a patent, and the rules around providing prior art are complicated and less than wholely transparent. Well it would have to actually be prior art. This is clearly a novel idea. My PG toggles are secured to the risers with magnets, but it bears no more similarity to this invention than it does to a fridge magnet. Cloth riser cover - tuck tabs with built in magnets seems like a great solution to a problem that people have been struggling with for years. If it was obvious it would have been done before now. Powerful magnets are a technology, this is one novel application of that technology. I'm impressed by RW for licensing this & bringing it to market instead of the "not invented here" attitude you sometimes see from innovative industry leaders.

http://www.wbir.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=38622 There's something satisfying about seeing this moralizing musclehead behind bars, but it's very troubling that he might be extradicted for capturing a fugitive the local authorities "couldn't". Luster had more GHB in his room in Mexico when they caught him.

Where does it get you when you practive this with what are clearly old aphorisms and idioms?

Explain what too efficient means.

I had an ACL repair and was jumping and paragliding MUCH less than a year later. An ACL repair should mean you're good to go, and 3 years is a long time to heal, but of course other things can accompany an ACL injury like meniscus damage. YOu haven't said anything about how stable your knee is here yet. I wouldn't necessarily say ACL is a recurring dislocation of a limb but I guess it depends on your circumstances & interpretation. It's a specific injury you had that meant your knee might hyperextend occasionally. Now it is repaired. A doctors signature is not a guarantee all the guy is doing is saying there's no exceptional impediment/risk. I expect you'll find a doc to sign it provided it's just ACL and your cartilledge isn't hosed. Just don't go it with the attitude that you're expecting a guarantee/indemnification. Putting this on your self declaration is just asking for trouble, it's all about liability, and you mentioning something that has been repaired just places the onus on a responsible party to say no. You could just go back & fill in the form again saying you made a mistake any your injured knee was repaired and it wasn't dislocating merely hyperextending. It's your knee and your risk accept the responsibility, assume the risk if you're prepared to and enjoy skydiving. You want to jump and a doc's sig is not going to affect the risk you take, only not jumping will affect that risk.

actual reference Cheers, T But it isn't a crime in D.C. sending a saucy message via the internet is now though, of course that would suppose that the page was actually underage when this happened.

Are you suggesting that he deserves no defense? When did you stop beating your wife Bill?

It's entertaining to watch the hypocrisy of the left as they go after a gay guy for sending a explicit messages to a consenting adult in response to explicit messages sent to him. If you keep it sufficiently vague you'll be able to maximize the damage to the republican "fag".

Nope, it was Drudge. That is now internet history. The fact is that the Lewinski story was spiked by a publication (maybe the enquirer) and so the scoop leaked to Drudge at the time. He seems to know in advance what a LOT of publications are going to run with. I consider Drudge mostly as a news aggregator. Most of his stuff simply links to other publications, his bias lies in his selection, he doesn't seem to do a lot of his own writing & direct publishing but due to his reputation the leaks & info tends to flow to him now. And of course he has links to Blankley and Blumenthal right next to eachother on his page. He'll just as happily link to some left wing screed as some right wing screed but the intent of showing each may be quite different. His most obvious bias is that he dislikes Google. If you think he tows the GOP party line you should try listening to him and you may be surprised.

Which one? I was given to believe that there were several involved. Do you have inside information? Hence I used the plural IMs.

This is priceless, now it turns out the guy is 21 and was over 18 when Foley sent the saucy IMs. All this verbage and 'expert opinion' over this bullshit? You gotta love the political system and media in this country......

With flags: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq101-1.htm

7 (no fails) but I also squeezed a tandem in between #1 and #2 because I couldn't solo due to student wind limits. The DZ where I learned Skydive Dallas put in a lot of effort on the ground to ensure you developed the right response in the air and passed the level, and this was in part due to their "Skydive University" based curriculum (Rob Laidlaw's teaching methods). I'm sure the ground based physical teaching methods they used helped me pass those levels where other approaches would have seen me fail. I have my suspicions that some DZs out there are less efficient than they could be in training & passing students through AFF levels. That time in the wind tunnel won't be wasted. Don't give up, some day you'll be enjoying $20 jumps and your AFF will be a fond memory. You should try to enjoy AFF it can be some of the most fun you'll ever have skydiving.

I chose the first example in this context for a reason. I don't know why you want to add noise to the signal. Another of my favorites is "Holy Willie's Prayer" but the intent is not to exalt the pious. Burns was a carousing Ayrshire lad, it's satisfying to remember that, especially when someone in a starched collar is singing Burns in a posh well trained singing voice with an anglified accent in front of room of gentlemen.

You reckon? Pretty suspicious bunch if you ask me. Ernest Borgnine?! Harpo Marx!? Now I'm convinced. Obviously plotting world domination.

It wasn't written, it's a quote from Drudge's Sunday night radio show, and yes he said it as part of one of his cynical rants. P.S. the most memorable part of the show (and I only caught fragments of it driving & channel hopping) was some redneck from Ohio who called in to pretty much say that they should have known the guy was damaged goods because the candidate was gay! Drudge cut the guy off and wasn't having any of it but it was priceless, I guess he thought he'd get a sympathetic ear.

Well I heard Drudge and he was pretty much taking his own line on this. His main point was the one I mentioned above that if they'd actually had sex in D.C. it would have been legal, but he text messaged him something suggestive and it's criminal, the thrust being that they're regulating the internet & digital communications in ways that make no sense in reality. He did make the point that there was a two way conversation with the victim talking about explicit stuff, but I don't think he was too out of line highlighting the raging hypocrisy here considering his remarks in total.

So that milkman was bullied 20 years ago by those amish girls? No excuses for this crap. They are two distinct issues, bullying should not be tollerated but plenty of kids are bullied and don't go on a murderous rampage. There's was a lot more going on with those columbine murderers than just bullying.

There is a double irony that if he'd actually had sex with his victim in D.C. it would have been legal, but texting him was illegal thanks to laws he championed.